Title of event: Spiral Knights Anniversary Art Contest ( Over 190k Ce In Prizes)
Njpaloozart Fair
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About this event:
This will be one of the biggest art contests for Spiral Knights. It will focus on drawings, sculptures, and any other type of art - excluding Fan-fics, poems, and any other textual art. I personally hope many players take advantage of this event and will create a lot of amazing art for Spiral Knights.
Why?:
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It is simple, I love Spiral Knights art-work. I am not talented in terms of arts. If someone told me to draw a straight line for a 200,000,000 Crystal Energy (lets be honest, life runs on Ce not Dollars, Euros, or the Pound) I would fail.
When:
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This contest will be starting right now! As in TODAY! The deadline for last submission(s) is April 4th 2013 *11:59 Pm Eastern Standard Time*. Winners will be posted by April 15th at the latest hopefully. =0
Media:
All of the artwork submitted will be blogged on Bechamel's Gossip
(The Official Echo of Silence Blog)
Link: http://bechamelsgossip.tumblr.com
Feel free to follow us on tumblr, and like any of the submissions <69.
Prizes:
Each category will have the same prizes awarded:
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1st Place: 4,069 Ce
2nd Place: 3,069 Ce
3rd Place: 2,069 Ce
Consolation Prize --- Anyone that enters will receive a barrel belly or 69 Ce!!
Rules:
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1. Do not steal any ones art and submit it as your own.
2. All art entered must be new art (no resubmitting your past work).
3. No criticism that will make someone cry and go suicidal. Keep it constructive.
4. You can enter TWO pieces of work per category.
5. You are allowed to submit to all categories. Although each category must have its own unique work(s).
6. Do not annoy me as this will most likely get me annoyed. Keep in mind I am judging <69
7. You can edit your art, but if it clearly copies someone's idea or is edited after judging it will not be counted. *So edit it before the deadline <69*
8. Make sure you follow the rules listed for the category you're submitting for.
9. No porn or rule34 of any kind.
Judges:
As of right now this contest will only have Two Judges: myself (Njthug) and Digicom. Many of you guys may not know Digi. Since I feel it is unfair to well have only myself judge this contest, and many of the other players in this game who I can work well with are sadly in Eos. I had to try out the next best option a great friend who I trust, and can get along with very well. Oh and importantly someone who is destined to be in Echo of Silence one day.
About Digi --- He is a great guy he plays Spiral Knights for fun many of you might have seen him around with very expensive armor sets. He plays more in the Spanish Servers, and is the founder of a guild called Solo Art. He created a very nice guild hall with his own bare hands, and well honestly this guy is as honest as they come.
We are still looking for more judges, and currently the two others we are eyeing are:
- 1. Magic 8 Ball
2. Conch Shell
Certain art pieces might be judged by the community as a whole without you knowing it so in a sense players will be picking a few winners.
How to Submit Your Art:
Post in this thread with the following format:
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Category Name:
Title of your artwork:
Link to Artwork:
In-Game-Name:
Questions you may have:
Will your guild members be submitting art work?
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Yes, Echo of Silence members can participate in the contest. This contest is open to everyone in Spiral Knights, even Boswick, Ian, Nick, and the famous Cronus can participate. The only player that can not participate is me - Njthug.
Why are you letting your guild members submit artwork?
I want this contest to allow everyone to have fun and be competitive as well. I do not know if the members from Eos will be participating, but I do hope they do since we have a lot of talented artists such as Cobalt, Waffle, Yukaberry, and Mustacheman (2manytoname)!
What type of artwork can I submit?
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Anything! It can be handmade artwork, macaroni drawings, a marble statue, a simple drawing on ms paint, or whatever else floats your boat.
THE CATEGORIES!
Category 1: Favorite Spiral Knight Monster Artwork:
In this category you can draw any Spiral Knight monster you wish. This can be a single monster or a grouping. Monsters can be interacting with knights or monsters as well *Snipes do not count as a monster*
Category 2: Fun in the Clockworks:
Draw your favorite Spiral Knights Clockwork Theme. This artwork must show the clockworks as a background or the whole picture. The theme should be easily noticeable. Feel free to include monsters, knights, or just a special area in the clockworks you find FUN.
Category 3: Player Versus Player Fun:
Draw some crazy artwork that shows off the PvP side of this game. It can be Blast Network or Lockdown based, as long as it's some knight vs knight art action.
Category 4: Create Your Own Monster:
In this category you will be given the opportunity to create your own monster for Spiral Knights. You can create your own class, or add this monster to any existing monster group. Please explain what type of attacks this monster has *Or you can show it* and why you believe it belongs in its monster family *A few sentences is good*.
Category 5: Create the Alpha Squad:
Sadly, we do not have enough information on the Alpha Squad to know of their sexy stylings. So draw what you think the alpha squad looks like. Use your imagination, skills and what we know to make something as sexy as their valor. =0.
Category 6: Spiral Knights Logo:
Lets imagine Nick asked you to design a logo for Spiral Knights. Would you be up for the challenge? Remember this Logo would be seen on their websites, projected on walls, used as a desktop icon (can be slightly edited for this) and might even show up as a flag on Nick's Ferrari's window.
Category 7: Create Your Own Weapon:
Create your own weapon or weapons for Spiral Knights! You can create a single weapon or a whole line of weapons. A line means its Alchemy Path - example: Sealed Sword > Faust > Gran Faust. It is time for you to create your own, gun, bomb, sword, or all three =). When you enter for this please remember to put a short description of the weapon(s) (no more than 5 sentences).
Category 8: Create Your Own Armor Set:
In this category you will be able to create a full armor set for Spiral Knights (Helm, Armor, and Shield). The armor set does not have to be a 5* set. Feel free to add a description describing the armor stats and what bonuses it would have. The armor set itself can be 1 to 12+ Pieces (A few sentences)
Category 9: Create A Comic:
Create a comic related to Spiral Knights! Try to add some humor into this comic as they are meant to be funny!!
Category 10: How Cuteeeee are you?:
Create a piece of spiral knights art that is just SO CUTE you just want to hug the picture!
Category 11: Free-For-All:
Anything goes here. Create whatever you want for Spiral Knights. Let your artist freak flag fly!
Category 12: Create Some Accessories:
So in this category you will be able to create your very own Spiral Knights accessories. Any creations must be added to a knight (So if you create a mustache you must put it on an existing helmet or a helmet or armor design you created) Feel free to create as many accessories as possible for your ultimate armor or helm =)
Category 13: Spiral Knights Merchandise:
Create some Spiral Knights merchandise. Hoodies, jackets, t-shirts, etc. You do not physically have to create it, but you can. Feel free to draw it out or create it using real materials. Remember folks, merchandise can be just about anything. Pencils, erasers, key-chains or even a SK themed jello mold. :P
Category 14: Forum Avatars:
Create some new avatars for all of us to use on the Spiral Knights forums. You can use my avatar as as example or take a look at all the existing ones here to get those ideas flowing! What would your dream avatar be for these forums? Make sure you keep these ideas Spiral Knights related.
Category 15: Favorite Npc:
Create artwork showing your favorite NPC in Spiral Knights. Lets show love to those Strangers, Kozma, Punch, Biscotti, Basil, etc. <69
Category 16: Create a GH Utopia:
In this category you will be creating some new spiral knight guild hall furniture. Then take that furniture and designing a room in a guild hall. So basically create new furniture concepts and place it in a room in using your skills of an artist.
Category 17: The Skylark:
Draw what you think the Skylark looks like =) In it's orbiting, planet scanning glory or in it's current state on Cradle, it doesn't matter. Lets see some freaking SPACESHIPS
Category 18: What do monsters do when we aren't around?:
Create artwork of Spiral Knight monsters random stuff you think they would be doing when we are not around. Example: Jellies fanning the royal jelly king, Gremlins playing table tennis, etc.
Category 19:Draw Njthug or Digicom:
Draw myself or Digicom plain and simple draw or make a sculpture or anything else what looks like our knights *Keep in mind my personal color is yellow and I do not wear wolver gear, and Digicom personal color is blue*.
Some screenies of outfits:
Nj's Costumes
Digi's Costumes
Category 20:To Be Announced
This category will be announced on March 20th. Digi and myself sat down and really wanted to test your skills so boys and girls be ready for a CRAZY category. Due to the obscene amount of craziness and well the short window of creating a master piece we will be doubling all the prizes for this category only: 1st Place: 8,690 ce, 2nd Place: 6,969ce, and 3rd Place: 4,690ce.
Category 20 --- Spiral Knights Crossovers!!
You will have to create artwork which portrays Spiral Knights in other video games or even real life games (Football, Basketball, Rugby etc.). Digi and I want to see what other video-games or real-life sporting events look like if Spiral Knights was added to them. You will be able to create your own style of crossover if you wish to for example: Marvel vs Capcom (A pretty well known video game) you can create Spiral Knights vs Sega if you desire.
More examples of Crossovers:
Spiral Knights meets Splinter Cell
Spiral Knights Call of Duty
Fifa Spiral Knights Edition (Dress up a knight in an Arsenal outfit?)
Spiral Knights meets Mario.
etc. Etc.
*Side-Note remember for each category you can use any type of art which portrays the category, Comics etc. can be used for all categories*